The myth of inevitable change masks the class-serving reality of historical rupture
Evidence
These myths made the new order a necessary one, an inevitable and benevolent event. They indicated to the national populace that the strains of historical novelty, the insecurities and anxieties accompanying the break with established forms were temporary, that change was natural, organic, and right. Founding myths were substituted for history, providing the appearance of historical narrative to what was in actuality part fact and part class-serving rationales. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 872
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Marx’s own theory is historically conditioned and will be negated (similarity 0.81)
- Racial myths rationalize existing power relationships (similarity 0.80)
- Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.80)
- Uneven capitalist development replaced feudal instruments and demanded new historical agents (similarity 0.79)
- Nation-states fabricate founding myths to legitimate class rule (similarity 0.79)
- Black historical being exceeds what historical materialism can capture (similarity 0.79)
- Marxism’s economism forced the conclusion that nationalism was a backward, diversionary ideology. (similarity 0.78)
- Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions (similarity 0.78)
- Historical elements react back on the economic causes that produced them (similarity 0.78)